Par BALAZS ARPAD. Árpád Balázs (*1937) composed the first version of the work between 1994 and 1996 for tárogató and concert band. Since this traditional Hungarian instrument is rarely found in ensembles abroad, a soprano saxophone can serve as an alternative solo instrument. The composer uses melodies from the early 18th century, from the age of Rákóczi's war of independence. An ambitious framewo…

The 'School of Bowing Technique? op. 2 is the second important violin tutor by Otakar ?evcík (1852-1934) and deals with the elementary technical demands of the right hand. Divided into three sections, the tutor contains more than 4,000 systematically arranged bowing exercises in increasing order of difficulty.This new edition of the 'School of Bowing Technique? combines the original six volumes in…

Par BARTOK BELA. Béla Bartók?s six string quartets, composed between 1908 and 1940, are 20th-century milestones of the genre. His First String Quartet is closely linked to his unhappy love for the violinist Stefi Geyer, to whom he sent the initial measures of its first movement in early 1908 with the remark: ?My song of death?. When he completed all three movements of the work a year later, he had…

Par DVORAK ANTONIN. Composé à l’automne 1881, l’opus 61 est le dernier des quatuors de Dvorák appelés, chronologiquement parlant, quatuors «du milieu», et dont les modèles déterminants furent Beethoven et Schubert. Dans cette œuvre en Ut majeur, c’est surtout l’influence de Beethoven qui se fait plus particulièrement sentir, de la construction thématique jusqu’au travail motivique, et c’est seulem…

Par DVORAK ANTONIN. The profound impression it makes on us is due in part to the sequence of variations on a death motif that seems to have been borrowed from the beginning of the second Kyrie from Bach's Mass in B minor. Written in 1890, it was commissioned by the publisher Novello for the Birmingham Music Festival and premiered there under the direction of the composer on 9 October 1891. For thi…

Klarinette. Hören, lesen & spielen ist die bewährte Bläserschule für dreizehn verschiedene Instrumente, die im Einzel- oder Gruppenunterricht eingesetzt werden kann. Sie ist gemäß den aktuellen Erkenntnissen und Ansprüchen der Musikerziehung konzipiert. Die perfekte Ergänzung zur Methode in drei Bänden bilden diverse Bücher mit Spielliteratur. Sie sind genau auf den Lernfortschritt in Hören, lesen…

Béla Bartók's series of piano pieces For Children, based on folk melodies, was written around the end of the first decade of the 20th century. The pieces were published shortly afterwards by the Hungarian publisher Károly Rozsnyai. That first publication was in four volumes, the first two containing a total of 42 pieces based on Hungarian folk tunes, the third and fourth containing 43 pieces based…

Tenorsaxophon. Hören, lesen & spielen ist die bewährte Bläserschule für dreizehn verschiedene Instrumente, die im Einzel- oder Gruppenunterricht eingesetzt werden kann. Sie ist gemäß den aktuellen Erkenntnissen und Ansprüchen der Musikerziehung konzipiert. Die perfekte Ergänzung zur Methode in drei Bänden bilden diverse Bücher mit Spielliteratur. Sie sind genau auf den Lernfortschritt in Hören, le…

Par DVORAK ANTONIN. The profound impression it makes on us is due in part to the sequence of variations on a death motif that seems to have been borrowed from the beginning of the second Kyrie from Bach's Mass in B minor. Written in 1890, it was commissioned by the publisher Novello for the Birmingham Music Festival and premiered there under the direction of the composer on 9 October 1891. For thi…

Dvorák n'avait que vingt ans quand il écrivit son Quatuor à cordes n o 1 en la majeur, op. 2 (1862). Le travail est considéré comme le deuxième compositeur travail le plus important, après le Quintette à cordes en la mineur op. 1.Dvorák ne sont pas retournés au travail sur op. 2 jusqu'à 1887, quand il a été la révision de ses premières oeuvres. Il a supprimé les sections de ce quatuor substantiell…